Rosario Herrero-Iraolo, who learned her part-time position at Ocean County College is being eliminated, addresses the college's Board of Trustees Monday at a meeting in Toms River.

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Ocean County College unveiled a financial restructuring plan Monday in the wake of its declaration last month that a fiscal emergency exists and more than a dozen staffers would lose their jobs.

The emergency, a legal distinction, gives the college administration of President Jon H. Larson greater authority over its 456 permanent employees, most of whom are members of the union locals of the New Jersey Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers.

The college administration has been feuding with those unions in contract negotiations and now over the cause of the current ...